Sentences with phrase «create radiation damage»

Solar storms can at times create radiation damage or introduce errors in satellite or spacecraft computer processors, causing them to function unpredictably, malfunction (sometimes permanently) or «misbehave» in other ways, Anderson says, adding that much of this activity goes unreported to the public because, particularly in commercial space - based systems, operators tend to be very reticent to admit they have had a problem that might discourage investors.

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If a cell is frozen, radiation does less damage to it because the free radicals it creates are much less mobile.

If the particle travels fast enough, its impact appears to create electromagnetic radiation (in the form of radio waves) that can damage or even disable the craft's electronic systems.

Called the «bystander effect,» the findings led to speculation that the radiation was creating some agent in the cytoplasm — an unidentified chemical — that then damaged nuclear DNA.

The cause of the damage is still poorly understood, but radiation is known to create highly reactive oxygen - containing molecules in the body.

Abstract: Charge Transfer Inefficiency (CTI) due to radiation damage above the Earth's atmosphere creates spurious trailing in Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images.

Now an international team led by scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has shown that how electrons respond to radiation in a solid can alter the way permanent damage is created in the material and radically affect its mechanical, magnetic, electrical, and optical properties.

Methods: In a relatively new approach, the scientists used a single blast of low - level radiation to create damage, or atomic defects, in a silicon - based material so they could study the movement of both the electrons and silicon ions.

Animal and human research has demonstrated that you can decrease by fifty percent DNA damage exposure to radiation and they had nothing to with it so they created a supplement company in Nashville, Tennessee and they sell them.

But there's nothing I've seen that's quite like the crowd - created Japanese animated tale of «Nuclear Boy,» which offers a metaphorical explanation of the plant damage and radiation questions aimed at children, drawing them in using that classic enticement — potty humor (which was featured here before in a video on sanitation).